It was suggested by Nearchos Clerides, in Villages and Cities of Cyprus, that Angastina had been named from the Frank word gastina for crust.

This alludes to the thick rocky shell rock (kafkala-Greek Cypriot for crust) that covered the surrounding mesas and on which the last version of the village was built.

[4] Christos Diakos in Angastina - History and Traditions agreed, saying "The church of Agios Therapon existed at our village since Byzantine time.

[7][8] The Cypro-Mycenaean (10,000-800 BC) archaeological burial site of Vouno was excavated 2 km east of the village in 1962 when a new road to Famagusta was put through.

On 17 August of that year a murder occurred that would eventually drive a wedge between the village's Christian and Muslim communities.

He was warned off but took it to heart and stupidly fired upon a company of young Greek men very late at night while they were having a coffee in the village square.

Eventually the Turkish father was arrested and he and his son in law were tried, sentenced and hung by the British authorities of the island.

The whole story is recorded in the ballad "The murder of Nikoli Philippou" by C. T. Palaisi[11] written at the time and the local press.